Restrict comments being posted under certain names? (6 posts)

Hey, everyone... I'd like to make sure that no one ever posts in the comment section under my name, or the name of anyone involved with my site. That way we can be sure that if people ask a question or have a criticism, they can be sure that the response actually comes from us.

is there any way to stop people from posting comments under our names?

You might provide a check with the internal function get_currentuserinfo() to see if the name being used (assumedly nickname) matches the name being used in the comment, but allow it if that user is logged in and posting the comment. Perhaps something like this in wp-comments-post.php:

I know this is an old thread, but I found nothing closer to what I'm hoping for. I'm a new user of WP. Is there any way to effectively eliminate duplication of used nicknames? Perhaps if for users, nickname was locked to match the username, making it unique? Maybe then allow only authors to have nicks (that were then also locked out of the general pool of available names).